Jobless, but with plenty of free time.

I’m now unemployed, which means I’ve got plenty of time on my hands to work on SOP!

Today I got started on an architectural design morgue that will guide the construction of all the environmental assets for the short.  I’ll be documenting that process as it happens!

Rrrrender

 

Doing a few test renders before articulating.

Finally Putting it all together

first full-body test

full body, more details

Continuing the design

leg design

Optical geometry

Smells like Torso

Continuing the slow march down the body

torso wireframe

torso render

 

Continuing the Arm

Slow going, but here’s the latest.

arm redesign

robot hand

completed arm render

drastic redesign, woop

so, decided to scrap the arm and start from fresh.  Sure, he’s a little more derivative this way, but I think the overall feel of the animation will be better with a slightly simpler, more “friendly” protagonist.

 

Musical New Year

A new year and a little something different.  I’m learning a few different music softwares in preparation of scoring “the Sum of Parts.”  As I do, I’ll be posting some of my musical experiments and thoughts along the way.

This piece tests out a Balinese Gamelan library for Kontakt, a sampler that I’m using with FL Studio.  The pattern I’m using is classically Gamelan — a lower part that is repeated, at a doubled pace, one octave higher.  I wish I had a library of Indonesian or even Indian percussion, but this piece instead uses a Battery techno drumkit.

moving on down the arm

continuing the Unit Seventeen model.

Unit17